English (ENG)

Explanation of Course Descriptions, Symbols, and Terms

ENG 104 Writing the First Year: Finding Your Voice Stretch I (Units: 3)

The first semester of the stretch version of the First-Year Writing Seminar. Practice academic success strategies and habits of mind, learn about campus resources, and learn and practice written academic inquiry, information literacy, the writing process, and critical reading in a variety of rhetorical genres. (ABC/NC grading, CR/NC allowed)
Note: Completion of ENG 104 and ENG 105 with a grade of C- or better will culminate in satisfying the Written English Composition requirement (GE Area 1A/A2).

ENG 105 Writing the First Year: Finding Your Voice Stretch II (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 104* with a grade of C- or better.

The second semester of the stretch version of the First-Year Writing Seminar. Practice academic success strategies and habits of mind, learn about campus resources, and learn and practice written academic inquiry, information literacy, the writing process, and critical reading in a variety of rhetorical genres. (ABC/NC grading, CR/NC allowed)

Course Attributes:

A2: Written English Comm
1A: English Composition

ENG 106 Writing the First Year: Finding Your Voice Stretch I and II (Units: 4)

Embedded support version of the First-Year Writing Seminar. Practice academic success strategies and habits of mind, learn about campus resources, and learn and practice written academic inquiry, information literacy, the writing process, and critical reading in a variety of rhetorical genres. (ABC/NC grading, CR/NC allowed)

Course Attributes:

A2: Written English Comm
1A: English Composition

ENG 112 Reading and Writing Techniques (Unit: 1)

Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.

Reading and/or writing skills: reading and study skills, comprehension, vocabulary, spelling, development of basic writing, and composition abilities. May be repeated for a total of 6 units. (CR/NC grading only)

ENG 114 Writing the First Year: Finding Your Voice (Units: 3)

Practice academic success strategies and habits of mind, learn about campus resources, and learn and practice written academic inquiry, information literacy, the writing process, and critical reading in a variety of rhetorical genres. (Plus-minus ABC/NC, CR/NC allowed) [CSL may be available]

Course Attributes:

A2: Written English Comm
1A: English Composition

ENG 122 The Evolution of Language in the Digital Age (Units: 3)

Examination of language patterns and linguistics structure of local and global online and digital communications.

Course Attributes:

4: Social/Behavioral Sciences
D1: Social Sciences

ENG 125 Language, Gender, and Sexuality (Units: 3)

Examine the relationship between language, gender, and sexuality. Ask how language is a site for both (re)producing the gendered social order and for rupturing normative ideas about gender and sexuality through creative linguistic practice. Discuss queer linguistic practices, and the ways that gender and sexuality (and their linguistic expression) are always already intersected with race, class, and other identity formations. Focus on the everyday use of language in interaction. Topics include embodiment and performance; identity and desire; and queer linguistics.

Course Attributes:

C2: Humanities
Social Justice
3B: Humanities

ENG 180 Understanding Math for AI and Large Language Models (Units: 3)

Have you ever wondered how the new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) can answer questions, write essays and translate texts? Explore AI systems that pertain to language - Large Language Models. Examine techniques for mathematical modeling of language, from statistical inferences to regression analysis, which form the computational foundations of AI. Discuss the impact of AI and Large Language Models on society and the environment. (Plus-minus ABC/NC, CR/NC allowed)

ENG 200 Writing Practices in Professional Contexts (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: GE Area 1A/A2 with a grade of C or better.

Introduction to writing practices common in professional workplaces. Analysis of how they influence and are influenced by workplace activities and cultures. Topics may include ethics, collaboration, internationalization, common forms, information design, and media choices. (Plus-minus letter grade only)

Course Attributes:

3B: Humanities
C2: Humanities

ENG 201 Writing the First Year: Global Perspectives of Multilingual Speakers Stretch I (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Intended for first-semester multilingual (non-native speakers of English) freshmen.

The first semester of the stretch version of the First-Year Writing Seminar for multi-lingual students. Focused on developing the academic reading and writing skills necessary for university coursework. This stretch version allows for extra time to revisit and practice reading and writing strategies to improve English fluency and comprehension, develop effective and varied reading strategies, and practice a variety of techniques for improving and increasing academic vocabulary. (Plus-minus ABC/NC, CR/NC allowed)

ENG 202 Writing the First Year: Global Perspectives of Multilingual Speakers Stretch II (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 201* with a grade of C- or better.

The second semester of the stretch version of the First-Year Writing Seminar for multi-lingual students. Focused on developing the academic reading and writing skills necessary for university coursework. This stretch version allows for extra time to revisit and practice reading and writing strategies to improve English fluency and comprehension, develop effective and varied reading strategies, and practice a variety of techniques for improving and increasing academic vocabulary. (Plus-minus ABC/NC, CR/NC allowed)

Course Attributes:

A2: Written English Comm
1A: English Composition

ENG 204 Effective Literacy Skills for College - Multilingual (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Composition for Multilingual Students Advising Module.

Development of university-level reading, writing, and information literacy skills. May be repeated for a total of 6 units. (ABC/NC grading, CR/NC allowed)

ENG 208 Grammar for Writing--Multilingual (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Must take CMSPT prior to enrolling.

Grammatical accuracy in written work. Structures typically reviewed and practiced include articles, verb forms and tenses, and sentence structure. May be repeated for a total of 6 units. (ABC/NC grading, CR/NC allowed)

ENG 209 Writing the First Year: Global Perspectives of Multilingual Speakers (Units: 3)

The initial course in the first-year writing experience sequence that helps multilingual students develop academic reading and writing skills for college success. Students explore their identity and purpose within the university. Information literacy is developed through reading, analyzing, and responding to a variety of texts. Inquiry-driven expository writing is developed through four major writing projects in which students integrate and reflect on evidence from readings. Students learn to use the writing process to revise and improve their essays, and practice techniques for developing research strategies.

Course Attributes:

A2: Written English Comm
1A: English Composition

ENG 210 Oral Communication - Multilingual (Units: 3)

Development of skills in listening, speech delivery, and preparation and presentation of informative and persuasive speeches. (ABC/NC grading, CR/NC allowed)

Course Attributes:

A1: Oral Communication
1C: Oral Communication

ENG 212 Advanced Grammar for Writing - Multilingual (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: First-year Writing Advising module or recommendation from an instructor of a previously-completed Composition for Multilingual Students course.

Grammatical accuracy and variety at the sentence and discourse levels. Readings, grammatical analysis, and compositions with an emphasis on editing. May be repeated for a total of 6 units. (ABC/NC grading, CR/NC allowed)

ENG 214 Second Year Written Composition: English (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 114 or equivalent with a grade of CR or C- or better.

Development of flexible reading and writing skills for academic inquiry and for engaging with social issues. Emphasis on varied composing and revising skills, critical analysis and self-reflection with special attention to rhetorical variation, and fine-tuning research. (Plus/minus ABC/NC, CR/NC allowed) [CSL may be available]

Course Attributes:

A4: Written English Comm II

ENG 215 Second Year Composition: Multilingual (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: Qualifying score on CMSPT and ENG 114 or equivalent with a grade of CR or C- or better or ENG 209 with a grade of CR or C- or better.

Expository argumentative composition and critical reading of nonfiction: supporting arguments with outside sources, developing revising strategies and research skills. (Plus/minus ABC/NC, CR/NC allowed)

Course Attributes:

A4: Written English Comm II

ENG 216 Cultivating Curiosity: Explore Your World, Your Identity, and Your Future (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: GE Area 1A/A2*.

Your world is waiting to be explored. Learn how the interests that drive and shape you are awakened through discovery. Choose a topic you're curious or passionate about (pop culture, rocket science, etc.) to better understand your world, identity, and future. Apply tools of questioning, research, writing, and reflection to bring your topic to life, all while practicing effective communication to different audiences. Serves as a springboard to students' majors and future lives through writing that makes a difference in your communities and leads to personal and professional success. [CSL may be available]

ENG 217 Multilingual Voices: Bridging the Distance with Our Stories (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: GE Area A2 or equivalent.

Practice multilingual reading, critical thinking, and writing skills. Engage with a topic of choice - from pop culture to rocket science and everything in between - to better understand the world, self-identity, and the future. Emphasis on effective and persuasive communication to different audiences showcasing various realities and bridging the distance between people. Includes practice with writing in a variety of formats as well as peer discussion designed to celebrate diversity. (Plus-minus ABC/NC, CR/NC allowed)

ENG 218 Literature Is Not A Luxury: Writing For Self and Community (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: GE Area 1A/A2*.

Explore how the literary imagination shapes our ways of being in the world. Research and write about self-chosen topics that determine how the study of literature is uniquely suited to intervene in questions of social justice, personal identity, health, and wellness. Through research projects, group presentations, and related activities learn and practice academic success strategies and literary argumentation; develop information literacy; engage with the writing process including peer and faculty feedback, and practice a variety of rhetorical genres, both digital and print.

ENG 225 Values in American Life (Units: 3)

Explores the ideas, concepts, and values that have been central to how Americans understand themselves and the United States as a nation. Focuses on literature, film, music, visual culture, and popular culture in a historical context. Emphasis on analytical skills, close reading practices, and critical thinking.
(This course is offered as HUM 225, AMST 225, and ENG 225. Students may not repeat the course under an alternate prefix.)

Course Attributes:

Am. Ethnic & Racial Minorities
C2: Humanities
3B: Humanities

ENG 250 Topics in Literature and Culture (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: GE Area 1A/A2 or permission of the instructor.

Methods and principles for close reading literature in major genres, especially fiction, drama, and poetry. Examination and analysis of a wide variety of literary styles in works from a diverse range of both major and lesser-known writers. Topics to be specified in the Class Schedule. May be repeated for a total of 12 units when topics vary.

Course Attributes:

C3 or C2: Humanities/Lit.
C2: Humanities
3B: Humanities

Topics:

Eco-Horror Story and Image
The Lyric Poem in English
The Novel in English
Drama in English
Masterworks of Literature in English
Contemporary Literature
Introduction to Shakespeare
Introduction to Science Fiction
The Vampire Tradition
Introduction to Global Literature in English
The Good Life: Literature and Pursuit of Happiness
Heroes and Antiheroes in Literature
Shakespeare and Film
Literature and Film
Reading the Landscape: Stories of Place and Power
Popular Drama and Social Critique
American Literature

ENG 256 Queer Crip Lit (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: GE Area 1A/A2 or permission of the instructor.

How do queer crip identities change our understanding of disability and gender/sexuality? Explore how disability and normalcy are portrayed in literature, focusing on how these depictions reflect the time periods in which they were written and change over time. Discuss how authors use disability as a tool in their stories to shape, challenge, or reinforce societal attitudes toward disability. Examine how literary works examine the connections between ableism and other forms of discrimination: racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, transphobia.
(This course is offered as ENG 256 and WGS 256. Students may not repeat the course under an alternate prefix.)

Course Attributes:

Social Justice
Am. Ethnic & Racial Minorities

ENG 275 Reading Video Games (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: GE Area 1A/A2 or permission of the instructor.

Examine video games as texts whose meaning is produced through the complex interplay of narrative, rules, and cultural context. Read and write about video games using critical perspectives and methods of literary analysis.
(This course is offered as ENG 275, CWL 275, and VGS 275. Students may not repeat the course under an alternate prefix.)

ENG 300 Graphic Memoir and Biography (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 216 or ENG 218 or equivalent.

Examination of the literary genre of graphic memoir and graphic biography within the medium of comics. (Plus-minus ABC/NC, CR/NC allowed)
(This course is offered as ENG 300 and C W 501. Students may not repeat the course under an alternate prefix.)

ENG 301 Thinking with Data: Quantitative Reasoning and the Liberal Arts in the Age of AI (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: GE Areas 1A/A2*, 1B/A3*, 1C/A1*, and 2/B4*, all with grades of C- or better; or permission of the instructor.

Development of quantitative and data analysis skills useful particularly for liberal arts disciplines and the careers that follow degrees in those areas, assisted by AI technologies where appropriate.
(This course is offered as HIST 301, CLAS 301, COMM 301, ENG 301, I R 301, JS 305, and PLSI 301. Students may not repeat the course under an alternate prefix.)

Course Attributes:

2UD: MATH/Quant. Reasoning

ENG 400GW Fundamentals of Professional Writing and Rhetoric - GWAR (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Professional Writing and Rhetoric majors; ENG 216 or ENG 218 with a grade of C or better; or permission of the instructor.

Forms, methods, standards, and issues central to the work of career writers. Students produce technical instructions, reports, promotions, and correspondence. (ABC/NC grading only)

Course Attributes:

Graduation Writing Assessment

ENG 402 Introduction to Professional Writing and Rhetoric (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: GE Areas 1A/A2, 1B/A3, 1C/A1, and 2/B4 all with grades of C- or better or permission of the instructor.

Introduction to the contexts and rhetorical strategies of professional writing. Examination and evaluation of a variety of professional documents in terms of their rhetorical and design features; practice producing and designing professional documents using a variety of digital and multimedia tools; exploration of the nature of professional audiences and discourses to write more effectively; studying how to construct an authentic, professional voice.

ENG 417 Academic Literacy and the Urban Adolescent (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: Restricted to English majors; ENG 216 or ENG 218 or equivalent.

Service-Learning focused on the acquisition of academic literacy by urban teens. Requires 25 volunteer hours in middle or high school classrooms. Partly satisfies Early Field Experience requirement for Single Subject Credential Program. [CSL may be available]

Course Attributes:

Social Justice

ENG 418 Grammar for Writers (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: GE Areas 1A/A2*, 1B/A3*, 1C/A1*, and 2/B4* all with grades of C- or better or permission of the instructor.

Focus on proofreading, editing, and revising writing for academic courses. Analyze samples of writing in their disciplines to define and develop effective sentences and paragraphs.

Course Attributes:

3UD: Arts or Humanities
UD-C: Arts and/or Humanities

ENG 419 Advanced Composition for Teachers (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: Restricted to English majors; ENG 216 or ENG 218 or equivalent.

The composition process with a focus on purpose, audience, types of discourse, rhetorical strategies, syntactic structures, and response groups. Service Learning requires 20 tutoring hours in secondary Language Arts classes. Partly satisfies Early Field Experience requirement for Single Subject Credential. [CSL may be available]

ENG 420 Introduction to the Study of Language (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: GE Areas 1A/A2*, 1B/A3*, 1C/A1*, and 2/B4* all with grades of C- or better or permission of the instructor.

The linguistic investigation of sounds, words, sentences, and conversations. Relationships between language, culture, dialects, and mind are examined. Recommended as a first linguistics course.

Course Attributes:

Global Perspectives
UD-C: Arts and/or Humanities
3UD: Arts or Humanities

ENG 421 Syntax (Units: 3)

Prerequisite for ENG 821: Restricted to graduate MA TESOL and Linguistics students.
Prerequisites for ENG 421: Upper-division standing; ENG 420; GPA of 3.0 or higher; or permission of the instructor.

Introduction to contemporary syntactic theory and fundamentals of linguistic data analysis.
(ENG 821/ENG 421 is a paired course offering. Students who complete the course at one level may not repeat the course at the other level.)

ENG 422 English and Empire (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Upper-division standing or ENG 420.

A critical history of English in its sociopolitical context throughout its 1500-year history. Topics include: English as an imperial language, the creation of "standard English" in both the UK and the US, and the contemporary global dominance of English and its connection to geopolitical struggle. Theory and practice for unsettling the English language from its colonial, imperial histories.

ENG 423 Language Analysis for Language Teachers (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Upper-division standing or ENG 420.

Introduction to English language structures and common English learner errors. Analysis of form, meaning, and use in spoken and written texts, including academic genres. Focus on understanding cross-linguistic influences and strategies for responding to learner challenges in grammar and pronunciation.

ENG 424 Phonology and Morphology (Units: 3)

Prerequisite for ENG 824: Restricted to MA Linguistics and TESOL students.
Prerequisites for ENG 424: Restricted to upper-division English majors and minors; GPA of 3.0 or higher; or permission of the instructor.

Theories and techniques of phonological and morphological analysis using data from English and other languages.
(ENG 824/ENG 424 is a paired course offering. Students who complete the course at one level may not repeat the course at the other level.)

ENG 425 Sociolinguistics (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

Introduction to language variation relating to age, ethnicity, gender, region, class, and occupation. Discusses language, culture, and multilingualism in diverse contexts, including California. [CSL may be available]

ENG 426 Second Language Acquisition (Units: 3)

Prerequisite for ENG 826: Restricted to graduate students in the MA TESOL, Composition, and Linguistics programs, or permission of the instructor.
Prerequisites for ENG 426: Upper-division standing; GPA of 3.0 or higher; or permission of the instructor.

Survey of research and issues in second language acquisition. Recommended for ESL/EFL and foreign language teachers and credential candidates. [CSL may be available]
(ENG 826/ENG 426 is a paired course offering. Students who complete the course at one level may not repeat the course at the other level.)

ENG 429 Stylistics (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: GE Area 1A/A2 or permission of the instructor.

Analysis of syntax, diction, and other devices that contribute to what we call literary "style" in a variety of 19th and 20th-century works of fiction and non-fiction.

ENG 450 California Culture (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: GE Areas 1A/A2*, 1B/A3*, 1C/A1*, and 2/B4* all with grades of C- or better or permission of the instructor.

Dynamics of California society, literature, and culture in recent times: world oasis, flawed paradise, lifestyle crucible, and creative milieu. The function of California in American culture and Pacific relations.
(This course is offered as HUM 450, ENG 450, and AMST 410. Students may not repeat the course under an alternate prefix.)

Course Attributes:

UD-C: Arts and/or Humanities
3UD: Arts or Humanities

ENG 451 Jewish Literature of the Americas (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: GE Areas 1A/A2*, 1B/A3*, 1C/A1*, and 2/B4* all with grades of C- or better or permission of the instructor.

Explores the literature of the Americas through the lens of Jewish identity and tradition. Texts in translation from Latin America, Canada, and the US reveal how Jewish writers have rethought modernity's intersection with Jewish traditions.
(This course is offered as JS 451, CWL 451, and ENG 451. Students may not repeat the course under an alternate prefix.)

Course Attributes:

Global Perspectives
Am. Ethnic & Racial Minorities
UD-C: Arts and/or Humanities
3UD: Arts or Humanities

ENG 460 Literature in English to 1800 (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Restricted to English majors or permission of the instructor.

Reading-intensive introduction to the history of a diversity of texts written in English before 1800, with a focus on identities, politics, and genres - including life writing, lyric poetry, drama, satire, romance, and more - emerging from changing ideas about selfhood, community, social order, race, gender, sexuality, nationhood, and sovereignty within an Atlantic world.

ENG 461 Literature in English Since 1800 (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Restricted to English majors or permission of the instructor.

Reading-intensive introduction to the history of a diversity of texts written in English since 1800, with a focus on politics, genres, and identities - including race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and more - emerging in the global aesthetic movements of romanticism, realism, modernism, postmodernism, and postcolonialism.

ENG 465 Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: GE Areas 1A/A2*, 1B/A3*, 1C/A1*, and 2/B4* all with grades of C- or better; ENG 216* or ENG 218* or equivalent; or permission of the instructor.

Examination of how post-apocalyptic narratives in mid to late 20th-century science fiction reflect cultural anxieties, explore ethical dilemmas, and propose a variety of dystopian and utopian solutions to the threat of rapid social, political, and environmental change.

Course Attributes:

3UD: Arts or Humanities
Env. Sustain. & Climate Action
UD-C: Arts and/or Humanities

ENG 471 Writing Technical Documentation (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: Professional Writing and Rhetoric majors or minors or Technical and Professional Writing Certificate students; Area E or equivalent with a grade of C better; or permission of the instructor.

Design and develop standard types of technical documentation including project plans, process descriptions, procedures, tutorials, and usability tests. Topics include audience analysis, writing style, and best practices. (Plus-minus letter grade only)

ENG 480GW Writing in English: GWAR Seminar (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: Restricted to English majors and minors; GE Area A2*.

Foundational methods of close reading and precise writing about a diverse range of literary and rhetorical texts in English. Engagement with challenging texts to practice reading, thinking, writing, and revision as intertwined processes. Analysis of social constructions of power and privilege in English-language texts, which are interpreted within relevant generic, historical, or global contexts. Introduction to disciplinary and professional standards for rhetorically effective and responsibly supported writing across a range of genres. Practice reflecting on rhetorical decisions and articulating one's perspective within larger scholarly, professional, or civic conversations. For the junior year. (ABC/NC grading only)

Course Attributes:

Graduation Writing Assessment

ENG 490 Grant Writing (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: Professional Writing and Rhetoric majors or minors or Technical and Professional Writing certificate students; Area E or equivalent with a grade of C better; or permission of the instructor.

Practice in grant proposal writing and research. Requests from private non-profit organizations to various funding agencies. (Plus-minus letter grade only) [CSL may be available]

Course Attributes:

Social Justice

ENG 495 Digital Humanities and Literacies (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 216 or ENG 218 or equivalent.

Introduction to topics, issues, practices, and tools to develop a critical engagement with digital culture, with a special focus on reading, writing, and understanding literature in the digital age.

ENG 501 Age of Chaucer (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: GE Areas 1A/A2*, 1B/A3*, 1C/A1*, and 2/B4* all with grades of C- or better; ENG 216* or ENG 218* or equivalent; or permission of the instructor.

Fourteenth-century English literature with a focus on major writers of the period.

Course Attributes:

UD-C: Arts and/or Humanities
3UD: Arts or Humanities

ENG 503 Studies in Medieval Literature (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 216 or ENG 218 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.

Rotating course on a specific topic, theme, genre, work, or issue in Medieval literature. Topics to be specified in the Class Schedule. May be repeated when topics vary.

Topics:

Medieval Rebel Writing
Chaucer's Women

ENG 505 Travel and the Literary Imagination (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: Restricted to upper-division standing; GE Areas 1A/A2*, 1B/A3*, 1C/A1*, 2/B4*, all with grades of C- or better; or permission of the instructor.

Survey of premodern and early modern travel and ethnographic writing, including missions, crusades, and New World conquests and settlements; their literary qualities; and their impact on literature.
(This course is offered as CWL 427, ENG 505, and HUM 427. Students may not repeat the course under an alternate prefix.)

Course Attributes:

Global Perspectives
UD-C: Arts and/or Humanities
3UD: Arts or Humanities
Social Justice

ENG 510 The Age of Wit (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: GE Areas 1A/A2*, 1B/A3*, 1C/A1*, and 2/B4* all with grades of C- or better; ENG 216* or ENG 218* or equivalent; or permission of the instructor.

Swift, Pope, Addison, and the circle of London wits and satirists of the early 18th century with a focus on the radical change in literary forms and ideas and their relationship to changes in society.

Course Attributes:

3UD: Arts or Humanities
UD-C: Arts and/or Humanities

ENG 512 18th-Century British Women Writers (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 216 or ENG 218 or equivalent.

Introduction to fiction, poetry, drama, and writing by a variety of authors from a key period in British women's writing. Exploration of the literary, political, and economic context of this creative flowering, as well as the forces that hampered it.

ENG 514 Age of the Romantics (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 216 or ENG 218 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.

Poetry and prose of Blake, Coleridge, Byron, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats.

ENG 523 Practicum in Language Tutoring (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Restricted to upper-division standing or permission of the instructor.

Training for both tutors of English for speakers of other languages and foreign languages across a range of contexts (including secondary school, adult education, community college, and university). Techniques covered include readings, role-play demonstrations, and reflective journals. Discussion of how to locate and select reference materials for teaching appropriate language skills.
(This course is offered as ENG 523 and MLL 523. Students may not repeat the course under an alternate prefix.)

ENG 524 Contemporary American Short Story (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: ENG 216 or ENG 218 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.

Survey of American short story writers since 1945 with selections by such authors as Shirley Jackson, Grace Paley, Flannery O'Connor, Saul Bellow, James Baldwin, John Cheever, Ann Beattie, Tobias Wolff, Raymond Carver, Sandra Cisneros, and Sherman Alexie.

ENG 525 Studies in American Literature (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 216 or ENG 218 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.

Rotating course on a specific topic, theme, genre, work, or issue in American literature. Topics to be specified in the Class Schedule. May be repeated when topics vary.

Topics:

American Women Modernist Poets
Bob Dylan

ENG 526 Age of the American Renaissance: 1830-1860 (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: GE Areas 1A/A2*, 1B/A3*, 1C/A1*, and 2/B4* all with grades of C- or better; ENG 216* or ENG 218* or equivalent; or permission of the instructor.

Achievement of a national literature in the works of such writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Frederick Douglass with readings of earlier authors.

Course Attributes:

Social Justice
Am. Ethnic & Racial Minorities
UD-C: Arts and/or Humanities
3UD: Arts or Humanities

ENG 527 American Literature: 1860-1914 (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 216 or ENG 218 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.

Major American writing from romanticism to realism and naturalism: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin, Henry Adams, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edith Wharton, and Theodore Dreiser.

ENG 528 American Literature: 1914-1960 (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 216 or ENG 218 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.

Stories, drama, and criticism by such authors as Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Wallace Stevens, Robert Lowell, and Sylvia Plath.

ENG 530 Early Atlantic Migrants and Texts (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 218* or equivalent or permission of the instructor.

Examine the literature of early British colonialism in the Atlantic world from c. 1600-1725, analyzing texts in English about the history of contact and migration, including exchange with First Nations peoples and the early African diaspora. Complete required service learning in which significant and relevant volunteer work (20 hours total) culminates in a class project. [CSL may be available]

Course Attributes:

Am. Ethnic & Racial Minorities
Social Justice

ENG 533 Holocaust and Literature (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: GE Areas 1A/A2*, 1B/A3*, 1C/A1*, and 2/B4* all with grades of C- or better; ENG 216* or ENG 218* or equivalent; or permission of the instructor.

Fiction and non-fiction Holocaust literature by Saul Bellow, T. Borowski, Etty Hillesum, I.B. Singer, and Elie Wiesel.
(This course is offered as JS 437, ENG 533, and CWL 437. Students may not repeat the course under an alternate prefix.)

Course Attributes:

UD-C: Arts and/or Humanities
Global Perspectives
3UD: Arts or Humanities

ENG 535 Literature and Ecology (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: GE Areas 1A/A2*, 1B/A3*, 1C/A1*, and 2/B4* all with grades of C- or better; ENG 216* or ENG 218* or equivalent; or permission of the instructor.

An appraisal of literary works in light of their representation of nature and their ecological wisdom. Examples of post-romantic American literature of nature. The theory and practice of ecocriticism.

Course Attributes:

Env. Sustain. & Climate Action
3UD: Arts or Humanities
UD-C: Arts and/or Humanities

ENG 540 Professional Editing (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: Professional Writing and Rhetoric majors or minors and Technical and Professional Writing Certificate students; Area E or equivalent with a grade of C better; or permission of the instructor.

Expectations for professional editing in the workplace. Development of specialized projects. Practice in relevant techniques and application of professional skills, standards, ethics, and methods. Review of grammar, punctuation, and usage. (Plus-minus letter grade only)

ENG 545 Visual Rhetoric and Document Design (Units: 3)

Principles of design and visual rhetoric and the application of those principles in document design. Workshop teaches publication design software. Required laboratory. (Plus-minus letter grade only)

ENG 546 20th Century American Jewish Women Writers (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: GE Areas 1A/A2*, 1B/A3*, 1C/A1*, and 2/B4* all with grades of C- or better; ENG 216* or ENG 218* or equivalent; or permission of the instructor.

Exploration through novels, short fiction, and memoir the connections American women forge and the tensions they experience via encounters with self, family, Judaism, American society, and world history.
(This course is offered as JS 546, ENG 546, and WGS 546. Students may not repeat the course under an alternate prefix.)

Course Attributes:

Global Perspectives
Am. Ethnic & Racial Minorities
UD-C: Arts and/or Humanities
3UD: Arts or Humanities

ENG 550 The Rise of the Novel (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 216 or ENG 218 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.

The emergence of the English novel in the work of such writers as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, and Smollett. The relationship of the new genre to changes in social and philosophical experience.

ENG 554 Modern American Novel (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 216 or ENG 218 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.

Major novelists from Dreiser through Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner to the present.

ENG 555 The Short Story (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 216 or ENG 218 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.

The short story as a distinctive literary phenomenon with a focus on the historical consideration and critical analysis of representative modern stories.

ENG 560 Counternarrative, Literature, and the Law: Critical Approaches to Law and Literary Studies (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: GE Areas 1A/A2*, 1B/A3*, 1C/A1*, and 2/B4* all with grades of C- or better; ENG 216* or ENG 218* or equivalent; or permission of the instructor.

Explore U.S. literature, along with legal theory and history to examine how narrative practices provide strategies for understanding social change. Builds interdisciplinary history of rights and methods of their expansion by reading literature alongside key texts from Critical Legal Studies and Critical Race Theory, as well as Supreme Court Cases and Congressional legislation.

Course Attributes:

Social Justice

ENG 571 Shakespeare's Rivals (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 216 or ENG 218 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.

Close study of the drama of Shakespeare's contemporaries and immediate successors. Combines modes of literary analysis with theatrically-informed approaches.

ENG 580 Individual Authors (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 216 or ENG 218 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.

Rotating course on a specific author, or group of authors, in British, American, or Global literatures of any period. Topics to be specified in the Class Schedule. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

Topics:

Faulkner and Wright
The Brontes: Life Lit & Myths of Haworth Parsonage
Blake and Wordsworth
Hurston and Hughes
Edith Wharton
The Gawain Poet
Melville
Emily Dickinson
Virginia Woolf
Mark Twain
Williams, Stevens, H. Crane
James Baldwin & Langston Hughes: Kings of the Blue
William Blake
George Eliot
Carver and Pinter

ENG 581 Jane Austen (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: GE Areas 1A/A2*, 1B/A3*, 1C/A1*, and 2/B4* all with grades of C- or better; ENG 216* or ENG 218* or equivalent; or permission of the instructor.

Lecture and discussion course on the complete works of Jane Austen.

Course Attributes:

3UD: Arts or Humanities
UD-C: Arts and/or Humanities

ENG 583 Shakespeare: Representative Plays (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 216 or ENG 218 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.

Shakespeare and his age, his development as a dramatist, and his literary, intellectual, and social milieu. Reading of representative comedies, histories, and tragedies as well as some non-dramatic poetry.

ENG 584 Shakespeare: Selected Plays (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 216 or ENG 218 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.

Study of a few plays in relation to the textual problems, dramatic technique, and problems of interpretation. Analysis of language, imagery, and structure.

ENG 585 Professional Writing for Digital Audiences (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Professional Writing and Rhetoric majors or minors and Technical and Professional Writing Certificate students; Area E or equivalent with a grade of C better; or permission of the instructor.

Standards and methods for designing and producing professional documents for social media including terms of service documents, user guides, and content strategies. Learn the basics of social media writing genres, spaces, and audiences. (Plus-minus letter grade only)

ENG 589 Milton (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 216 or ENG 218 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.

In-depth study of Milton's prose and poetry. Examination of technique, language, imagery, and interpretation.

ENG 600 Theory of Literature (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 216 or ENG 218 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.

Analysis of literature as a symbolic action. Exploration of the recurring motives and concepts which figure in formal appeals, the relationship between literature and rhetoric, and the tactics and grounds of persuasion in literature.

ENG 601 Literature and Psychology (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: GE Areas 1A/A2*, 1B/A3*, 1C/A1*, and 2/B4* all with grades of C- or better; ENG 216* or ENG 218* or equivalent; or permission of the instructor.

Selected fiction and drama which reflect the artist's perception of human motivation and behavior. Application of theories of personality to the writer's art.

Course Attributes:

3UD: Arts or Humanities
UD-C: Arts and/or Humanities

ENG 602 Literature, Identity, Society: Theoretical Approaches to Identity and Cultural Critique (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: GE Areas 1A/A2*, 1B/A3*, 1C/A1*, and 2/B4* all with grades of C- or better; ENG 218* or equivalent; or permission of the instructor.

Theoretical approaches to the social production of identification in literature. Application of major topics and methods in literary theory to understanding literature's role in creating, reflecting, and critiquing social conditions, identities, and social change through the formal dynamics and narrative styles of poetry, plays, and fiction. Topics include genre theory, narratological, and historical methods by which literature represents the social world in terms of identity, social membership, belonging, and exclusion. Emphasis on social categories of identification that may include class, nationality, gender, race, sexuality, or other relevant social and identity categories characterized in poetry, fiction, and plays.

Course Attributes:

Am. Ethnic & Racial Minorities
3UD: Arts or Humanities
UD-C: Arts and/or Humanities

ENG 608 Language Teaching in Multilingual Contexts (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Upper-division standing or permission of the instructor.

A survey of best principles and key competencies for second and foreign language teaching, drawing from current theories and researched practices, with an emphasis on the knowledge and skills that are crucial for language teaching in multilingual contexts.
(This course is offered as MLL 608 and ENG 608. Students may not repeat the course under an alternate prefix.)

ENG 611 Modern Criticism (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 216 or ENG 218 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.

Examination of critical approaches including the formalist and the psychoanalytic. Application of one or more critical methods to works of imaginative literature.

ENG 612 Serial Narrative (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 216 or ENG 218 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.

The serial narrative from its 18th-century roots to today, considering the novel, cinema, and television.

ENG 614 Women in Literature: Authors and Characters (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 216 or ENG 218 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.

Rotating course on a specific topic, theme, or issue focused on literature and criticism by women writers of any period. Topics to be specified in the Class Schedule. May be repeated when topics vary.

Topics:

Women Writers and Social Change
Women in Literature

ENG 615 Imagery, Metaphor, and Symbol (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: GE Areas 1A/A2*, 1B/A3*, 1C/A1*, and 2/B4* all with grades of C- or better; ENG 216* or ENG 218* or equivalent; or permission of the instructor.

The relationship between symbolic process and organic form in literature. Emphasis on symbolism as meta-language, controlled patterning, tonal modulation, shadow structure, and mythic resonance.

Course Attributes:

UD-C: Arts and/or Humanities
3UD: Arts or Humanities

ENG 616 Orientalism in Literature and Society (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: GE Areas 1A/A2*, 1B/A3*, 1C/A1*, and 2/B4*, all with grades of C- or better or permission of the instructor.

Survey of the image of the Orient and the East in western representation from the Ancient Greeks to contemporary culture, examining not only literature but also art history, film, video games, television, and other media. Investigation of the nature and diversity of these images in relation to the influential theory of Orientalism set forth by Edward Said. Consideration of Orientalism's ongoing relevance and permutations across major epochs and art forms.
(This course is offered as CWL 426, ENG 616, and HUM 426. Students may not repeat the course under an alternate prefix.)

Course Attributes:

Social Justice
Global Perspectives
UD-C: Arts and/or Humanities
3UD: Arts or Humanities

ENG 618 Collaborative Writing (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: ENG 402, ENG 540, and ENG 545 with grades of C or better.

Develop professional skills for collaborating with other writers on high-impact persuasive writing projects; including project management, research, group work, editing, self-assessment, and presentation. (Plus-minus letter grade only) [CSL may be available]

Course Attributes:

Social Justice

ENG 620 Computational Analysis of Language Data for Artificial Intelligence (AI) (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Upper-division standing or permission of the instructor.

Introduction to linguistic analysis of digital texts. Learn to write programs in Python and process raw texts (tokenization), discover statistical patterns in linguistic data (frequency distribution), perform part-of-speech tagging, text segmentation, and classification.

ENG 630 Selected Studies (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 216 or ENG 218 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.

Rotating course on a specific topic, theme, genre, or issue in literature from a variety of national traditions and/or historical periods. Topics to be specified in the Class Schedule. May be repeated when topics vary.

Topics:

Literature of Labor
Expatriate Literature of Paris in the 20's
Detective Fiction
The Bible & the English/American Literary Traditn
Expatriate Writers in Paris - 30s & 40s
Bible as Literature
Literature and the Body
New World Encounters in ENG Renaissance Literature
Nabokov and Hitchcock
American Poetic Tradition: Whitman to Frost
Shakespeare History Plays and the War of the Roses

ENG 633 Queer(ing) Narrative Literature (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 218 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.

Exploration of the multiple ways in which English literature, both fiction and non-fiction, can be read, analyzed, and interpreted through the critical lens of Queer Theory. Emphasis on literature that can be considered queer in content, form, or both. The term "queer" will be examined as an adjective, a verb, and a pedagogical orientation in its application to narrative literature.
(This course is offered as ENG 633, SXS 633, and WGS 633. Students may not repeat the course under an alternate prefix.)

Course Attributes:

Am. Ethnic & Racial Minorities

ENG 636 Myth, Literature, and Adaptation (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 218 or equivalent or permission of the instructor.

Examine literature and adaptations steeped in the traditions of myth, folktale, and legend. Discuss contemporary writers of fiction, poetry, and drama who reinvent classic stories, modernizing ancient tales of human ambition, love, loss, and more.

ENG 640 Global Texts and Practices (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.

The global characteristics of language, writing, literature, and literacies across historical periods, genres, and Englishes. Topics to be specified in the Class Schedule. May be repeated when topics vary for a total of 12 units.

Course Attributes:

Global Perspectives

Topics:

Post-Colonial Literature in English
The Literature of Exile and Migration
British and American Travellers to Greece
Global Cities
Raciolinguistic: Language, Race & Colonization
The Short Story: Global Literature in English
Irish Literature

ENG 655 Literature and the Adolescent Reader (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: GE Area 1A/A2.

Analysis and evaluation of literature about and for adolescents. Teaching approach based on reader response theory. Required for students completing the Single Subject Waiver in English.

Course Attributes:

Am. Ethnic & Racial Minorities

ENG 660 Career Pathways & Applied Projects (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: ENG 402, ENG 540, and ENG 545 with grades of C- or better.

Field experience in professional writing or editing, including structured supervision and evaluation by program faculty and placement sponsor. Examine diverse career pathways in professional writing. Build professional identity through portfolio, résumé, and other materials. (Plus-minus letter grade only) [Formerly ENG 695]

ENG 670 Advanced Writing for Graduate Studies (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of the instructor.

Development of reading/writing skills for graduate work focusing on the kinds of reading/writing needed in a variety of disciplines. May not be used for master's degree ATC requirements.

ENG 680 Language Models and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 620 or permission of the instructor.

Examine how machine models represent and use human language in contemporary AI systems. Explore probabilistic, vector-based, and large language models and analyze their application to tasks such as text classification, sentiment analysis, information extraction, and text generation. Emphasis on interpreting model behavior, evaluating limitations and biases, and understanding the social and professional implications of language-based AI applications.

ENG 688 Assessment in English Language Arts (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: Restricted to senior English Education majors; an interview with an English Single Subject Credential adviser.

Development and preparation of instructional materials and strategies for secondary English Language Arts. Application of formative and summative assessment techniques used in teaching secondary English Language Arts. Creation of an English Education e-Portfolio to demonstrate mastery of subject matter competency in English. (Plus-minus letter grade only)

ENG 690 Senior Seminar (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: Restricted to senior English Literature and English Education majors; ENG 480GW with a grade of C or better; or permission of the instructor.

Rotating course on a specific topic, theme, literary form, historical period, or theoretical tradition in British, American, or global literatures. Intensive study of a literary topic culminating in a research paper. Topics to be specified in the Class Schedule. May be repeated when topics vary.

Topics:

Toni Morrison
Animal Studies and Literature
Noir Culture
James Joyce
Imagining World War I
Henry James' Formal World
Hawthorne
H. D. and Marianne Moore
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Aphra Behn
Religion in British Poetry Since 1800
Emily Dickinson: Serial Poet
Radical Literature
Queers in Crisis:Mid-Century LGBT Art & Literature
Literature and Ethics
The Literature of Food
Spenser
Major Victorian Poets
Major Lyric Poets and Forms
Bellow, Malamud, and the Roths
Women Writers of the Southern Renaissance
What Are Poets For?
Steinbeck
T. S. Eliot
Teaching Shakespeare
The Bard in Bollywood
The Restoration
American Life Writing
Caribbean Poetry in English
Charles Dickens
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
D. Lessing and J. Didion
Devils and Angels
Moore and Bishop
W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot
Thomas Hardy

ENG 699 Independent Study (Units: 1-3)

Prerequisite: Upper-division standing or permission of the instructor.

Individual supervision of intensive, independent work, largely of a research nature, culminating in a paper. May be repeated for a total of 9 units.

ENG 700 Introduction to Composition Theory (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Admission to MA Composition Program or to Composition or Post-Secondary Reading Certificate Program.

Issues of composition theory, research, and classroom practice. (Plus-minus letter grade only)

ENG 701 Theoretical Backgrounds in Community College and College Reading Instruction (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of the instructor.

Review of research on the physiological, psychological, and linguistic processes involved in developing literacy skills on the community college and college levels. Examination of the relationships between reading and writing competencies, and reading and reasoning strategies.

ENG 702 Introduction to Graduate Study of Composition, Linguistics, and TESOL (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Restricted to graduate English Composition, Linguistics, and TESOL students.

Introduction to foundational knowledge about major historical developments in the fields of Composition, Linguistics, and TESOL. Discussion of major theoretical orientations, commonly used qualitative and quantitative research approaches, genres of scholarship (both written and oral), and scholarly resources. (Plus-minus letter grade only)

ENG 704 Pedagogical Grammar for Composition (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: MA Composition and Composition and Post-Secondary Reading Certificate students.

Theory and practice of responding to linguistic, stylistic, and rhetorical issues in student writing. (Plus-minus letter grade only)

ENG 707 Topics in Language Analysis (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of the instructor.

Introduction to theory, research, practice, and application of language analysis. Topics to be specified in the Class Schedule. May be repeated when topics vary.

Topics:

Advanced Pedagogical Grammar for TESOL
Advanced Seminar in the Structure of English
Advanced Pedagogical Grammar for Composition
Corpus Methods in Text Analysis

ENG 709 Seminar in Teaching Integrated Reading and Writing (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: MA Composition and Composition and Post-Secondary Reading Certificate students.

Exploration of the integration of reading and writing from both a theoretical and pedagogical perspective.

ENG 710 Course Design in Composition and Post-Secondary Reading (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: Admission to MA Composition Program or to Composition or Post-Secondary Reading Certificate Program; ENG 704 or ENG 709 with a grade of B or better.

Theory and practice of designing post-secondary reading and composition courses.

ENG 713 Seminar in Curriculum and Instruction in English I (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Completion of subject matter certification in English or permission of the instructor.

Theory, curriculum design, instruction, and assessment methods for teaching English language, literature, and oral and written performance for grades 6 to 12.

ENG 714 Seminar in Curriculum and Instruction in English II (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: ENG 713; Subject Matter Competency certification in English; concurrent enrollment in student teaching.

Applied theory, curriculum design, instruction, and assessment methods for teaching English language, literature, oral and written performance for grades 6 to 12. (Plus-minus ABC/NC, CR/NC allowed)

ENG 715 Pedagogy and Practice of Postsecondary Reading (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of the instructor.

Putting theory into practice for developing lesson plans to teach basic literacy skills.

ENG 717 Projects in the Teaching of Literature (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of the instructor.

Literary theory and its practical application in the college classroom. Practice in applying various critical approaches to literary texts and designing plans for teaching various genres.

ENG 718 Supervision of Teaching Experience (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Teaching assignment in a college-level composition course.

Supervision and training in curriculum, teaching techniques, and grading procedures.

ENG 719 Seminar: Contemporary Semantic Theory (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of the instructor.

Introduces tools used to investigate semantic structure (the interpretation of linguistic expressions), develops logical representations for English sentences, and investigates entailments and presuppositions at the word level (lexical semantics) and discourse level (pragmatics).

ENG 723 Seminar in the Structure of English (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 421 or permission of the instructor.

Advanced study in the semantic and discourse-pragmatic structure of English from the perspective of cognitive linguistics. Research projects required.

ENG 724 Special Topics in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 730 or permission of the instructor.

Introduction to theory, research, and pedagogical innovations in key areas of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages including applications to materials design, lesson planning, and assessment. Topics to be specified in the Class Schedule. May be repeated when topics vary.

Topics:

Researching Second Language Classrooms
Technology for TESOL
Teaching EF/SL Abroad
Incorporating Performance in the ESL/EFL Classroom

ENG 725 Seminar in Discourse Analysis (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of the instructor.

Theories and methods of discourse analysis. Analyze texts and conversations using the various methods and submit a final project analyzing original data in the framework of the student's choice.

ENG 726 Practicum in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 730 (may be taken concurrently).

Through assignment as an apprentice and tutor, TESOL students gain experience with methods, materials, and procedures for teaching non-native speakers of English.

ENG 727 Linguistic Field Methods (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of the instructor.

Introduction to basic documentary linguistics and linguistic fieldwork through the elicitation and analysis of data from an unfamiliar language. Discussion of research ethics and project logistics.

ENG 728 Topics in Sociolinguistics (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of the instructor.

Exploration of current topics in sociolinguistics with a focus on working with linguistic data to develop methodological and analytic skills necessary to conduct research. Topics to be specified in the Class Schedule. May be repeated when topics vary.

Topics:

Narrative in Society
Language and Gender
Sociolinguistics and Classroom Interaction
Language in Society
Sociolinguistics of Academic Literacy

ENG 730 Introduction to Graduate Study of TESOL (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: MA TESOL students; ENG 425 and ENG 426 or equivalents; completion of Level One Writing Proficiency requirement.

Contemporary theories, approaches, and practical procedures in teaching English as a second or foreign language. Principles and current practices in curriculum development, lesson design, skill development, classroom management, and assessment.

ENG 731 Seminar: TESOL Listening and Speaking Skills (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of the instructor.

Theories, research, objectives, problems, and techniques in the teaching of English to speakers of other languages. Topics include listening and speaking skills, systematic study of materials and methods of instruction, and preparation of teaching materials.

ENG 732 Seminar: TESOL Reading and Writing Skills (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of the instructor.

The teaching of reading and writing skills to adult non-native speakers of English. Theory and research in ESL and EFL reading and composition, curriculum and lesson planning, teaching techniques and activities, materials selection and development, responding to student work, and assessment.

ENG 733 Seminar in Student Teaching (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Restricted to graduate English Composition, Linguistics, and TESOL students.

Pedagogical issues in the teaching of courses in an English discipline (e.g., college-level writing, adult English as a second language, college-level linguistics).

ENG 734 TESOL Curriculum and Assessment (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of the instructor.

Develop an original curriculum and assessment procedure for a specific learning context. Assigned readings cover theoretical and practical issues in syllabus design, materials development, and language assessment.

ENG 736 Seminar: Teaching ESL in the Community (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of the instructor.

Current objectives, problems, and techniques for teaching ESL to adult immigrants in the community. Study of needs assessment, curricula, materials, and various methodologies to teach adults.

ENG 738 Pragmatics and Oral Skills (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Graduate standing or permission of the instructor.

Pragmatics research and methods for teaching social interaction skills for TESOL. The application of materials appropriate to specific cultural and educational contexts.

ENG 741 Seminar: Literary Theory and Research Methods (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: Restricted to Graduate English Literature students or permission of the instructor.

Practice in the theory, criticism, and research methods of literary study, leading to a major research project.

ENG 742 Seminar: Studies in Criticism (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 741 (may be taken concurrently) or permission of the instructor.

Examination of a specific topic, critic or group of critics, and/or tradition in literary criticism. Topics to be specified in the Class Schedule. May be repeated when topics vary.

Topics:

Lit & Queer Theory: Origins & Present Themes
Lit, History & Exile Erich Auerbach & Lit Theory
Cultural Criticism
Benjamin and Adorno
Reading Walter Benjamin
Applied Critical Theory
The Noir Vision in American Culture
Issues in Teaching English
Modern Criticism

ENG 744 Seminar: Literature and Psychology (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 741 (may be taken concurrently) or permission of the instructor.

Contributions of depth psychology to the understanding of selected works of literature.

ENG 751 Seminar: Studies in 16th Century English Literature (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 741 (may be taken concurrently) or permission of the instructor.

Examination of topics in 16th century English literature. Topics to be specified in the Class Schedule. May be repeated when topics vary.

Topics:

Transatlantic Exploration and Encounters
Spenser and Marlowe
16th Century Lyric and Comedy
Marlowe, Jonson, and Donne
Sidney, Spenser, Jonson, Donne
Christopher Marlowe and John Webster
Lyric and Epic Poetry of Renaissance
Gender and Text in 16th Century Literature
Marlowe & Jonson as Shakespeare's Great Rivals

ENG 753 Seminar: Studies in 18th Century English Literature (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 741 (may be taken concurrently) or permission of the instructor.

Examination of topics in English literature of the long 18th century (1660-1800). Topics to be specified in the Class Schedule. May be repeated when topics vary.

Topics:

Beggars & Cross-Dressers: A Survey of 18th Century
Flight to Confinement
Satire's Vile Bodies: The Art of Swift and Waugh
Johnson and T. S. Eliot
18th Century Novel
18th Century Poetry
18th Century British Literature and Culture
Discord and Elegance - 18th Century
Swift, Richardson's Clarissa, and Tristram

ENG 754 Seminar: The Romantic Movement (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 741 (may be taken concurrently) or permission of the instructor.

Ideas, themes, or literary problems in the works of such late 18th and early 19th century authors as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.

ENG 755 Seminar: Studies in Victorian Literature (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 741 (may be taken concurrently) or permission of the instructor.

Examination of topics in English literature of the Victorian period. Topics to be specified in the Class Schedule. May be repeated when topics vary.

Topics:

Age of Victorians
Victorian Afterlife
Nineteenth Century Mystery
Victorian Poetry
Victorian Social Novelists

ENG 756 Seminar: 20th Century English Literature (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 741 (may be taken concurrently) or permission of the instructor.

Examination of topics in 20th century English literature. Topics to be specified in the Class Schedule. May be repeated when topics vary.

Topics:

Women of 1928
20th Century English Literature

ENG 758 Seminar: Southern African Literature in English (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 741 (may be taken concurrently) or permission of the instructor.

Study of Southern African literature in English from 1950 to the present with accompanying historical and theoretical texts. Writers from South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Botswana include Mphalele, Gordimer, Coetzee, Head, Ndebele, and Marechera. Emphasis on postcolonial issues and dismantling of apartheid.

ENG 760 Seminar: Studies in American Literature 1600-1899 (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 741 (may be taken concurrently) or permission of the instructor.

Examination of topics in American literature written between 1600-1899. Topics to be specified in the Class Schedule. May be repeated when topics vary.

Topics:

Emily Dickinson and American Women Writers
James, Howells, and Wharton
19th Century American Gothic
English/American Romantics
American Literature and Ideology
American Romanticism
Stephen Crane and the American 1890's

ENG 762 Seminar: Twentieth Century American Literature (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 741 (may be taken concurrently) or permission of the instructor.

Examination of topics in 20th century American literature. Topics to be specified in Class Schedule. May be repeated when topics vary.

Topics:

20th Century U.S. Women's Poetry
Experimental Books

ENG 763 Contemporary American Short Fiction (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 741 (may be taken concurrently) or permission of the instructor.

Advanced study of the major fiction writers from the post-World War II era to the present. Exploration of the contemporary short story in the United States.

ENG 776 Studies in Caribbean Literature in English (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 741 (may be taken concurrently) or permission of the instructor.

Examination of primarily Anglophone Caribbean literature from the 19th century to the present day. Genres covered range from the slave narrative and the novel to epic and performance poetry.

ENG 780 Seminar: Individual Authors (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 741 (may be taken concurrently) or permission of the instructor.

Examination of literary works written by an individual author or group of authors. Authors to be specified in the Class Schedule. May be repeated when author varies.

Topics:

O'Connor, Bellow, Malamud, Ozick
Austen, Bronte, George Eliot
Silko and Momaday
Wright Morris
The Shelleys and Lord Byron
The Poetry of T.S. Eliot
The Poetry of John Keats
Williams, Stevens, H. Crane
Wilde and James
Jean Toomer
Gertrude Stein
Saul Bellow
Virginia Woolf
Samuel Beckett
Gerard M. Hopkins
Raymond Carver
Lorraine Hansberry
Jane Austen
Highbrows-Lowbrows
Hemingway: An In-Depth Study
Hawthorne, Poe, Melville Seminar
Eudora Welty
D. H. Lawrence, Artist and Seer
Toni Morrison

ENG 785 Seminar: Shakespeare (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 741 (may be taken concurrently) or permission of the instructor.

Representative plays: examination of textual problems, dramatic technique, language, imagery, and interpretation.

ENG 789 Milton (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 741 (may be taken concurrently) or permission of the instructor.

In-depth study of Milton's prose and poetry. Examination of technique, language, imagery, and interpretation.

ENG 790 Seminar: Selected Studies (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: ENG 741 (may be taken concurrently) or permission of the instructor.

Examination of topics in British, American, or Global literatures, and/or literary theory. Topics to be specified in the Class Schedule. May be repeated when topics vary.

Topics:

Colonialism and Early Modern English Literature
Portraits of Women in 19th & 20th Cen American Lit
Tragedy in the Southern Novel
Lyric and Form
Short Story
Heroes and Antiheroes in English Literatures
American Autobiography
Narrative Theory
Selected 19th Century Women's Fiction
New Media in the Teaching of U.S. Literature
Narrative Worlds from Don Quixote to Fanfiction
Literary & Food Studies: Consumption/Culinaryism

ENG 803 Teaching Practicum: Literature (Units: 3)

Prerequisite: By application only; contact the English Department or see the English Department website for details.

Exploration of pedagogical issues in the teaching of literature by assisting professors in conducting large lecture courses. May be repeated for a total of 6 units.

ENG 821 Syntax (Units: 3)

Prerequisite for ENG 821: Restricted to graduate MA TESOL and Linguistics students.
Prerequisites for ENG 421: Upper-division standing; ENG 420; GPA of 3.0 or higher; or permission of the instructor.

ENG 824 Phonology and Morphology (Units: 3)

ENG 826 Second Language Acquisition (Units: 3)

ENG 895 Field Study or Applied Research Project (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor, adviser, department chair, and committee; approval of Advancement to Candidacy (ATC) and Culminating Experience (CE) forms by Graduate Studies.

Field study, research project, or analysis of a significant pedagogical or professional challenge, incorporating application of knowledge and techniques acquired in the program of study. (CR/NC grading only)

ENG 896 Directed Readings in Preparation for the CE Examination (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: English majors; not open to students selecting the thesis option (ENG 898); approved ATC and Culminating Experience Proposal.

Directed reading developed in consultation with the student's examination committee in English. (CR/NC/RP grading option)

ENG 896EXM Culminating Experience Examination (Unit: 0)

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor and committee chair; approval of Advancement to Candidacy (ATC) and Culminating Experience (CE) forms by Graduate Studies. ATC and Proposal for Culminating Experience Requirement forms must be approved by the Graduate Division before registration.

Enrollment in 896EXAM required for students whose culminating experience consists of an examination only. Not for students enrolled in a culminating experience course numbered 892, 893, 894, 895, 898, or 998. (CR/NC, RP)

ENG 898 Master's Thesis (Units: 3)

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor; recommendation of the major adviser; approval of Advancement to Candidacy (ATC) and Culminating Experience (CE) forms by Graduate Studies. Advancement to Candidacy and Proposal for Culminating Experience Requirement forms must be approved by the Graduate Division before registration.

(CR/NC grading only)

ENG 899 Independent Study (Units: 1-3)

Prerequisites: English graduate students; enrollment by petition; permission of the graduate coordinator and supervising faculty member.

Individual research into an issue emphasizing language and/or literature. May be repeated for a total of 6 units.